Thursday, October 14, 2010

Dr. Grumpy: "Look, this is silly. I mean, this is the third consecutive visit when I told you to increase your dose, and you agree to do so, but then when you come back you tell me you never did, though can't tell my why. And you wonder why your symptoms aren't any better. If you're not going to take my advice, why do you even bother coming in?"

Hold on one second there. What was the medication for. Are the symptoms pleasurable.Like for instance , don't lie, how many of you have never double downed on your Viagra, even though you don't need to.

Maybe Grumpy just doesn't like to see the guy having fun. Got to watch the Grumpy.

The only time I've ever had a problem with dosage increase or new med is because of cost but I always let my doctor know at the time. Normally they check to see if they have samples so that I can try said dosage/new med and see if it's effective before we try working out how I can manage to pay for it.

I get it all the time where a patient calls back and says they are no better. I asked if the medicine made any difference and they say they never took it. The read the list of side effects and were afraid to take it. Can I just hang up then?

Welcome to my whining!

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